Michael Stravato for The New York TimesBruce Labay, a businessman in El Campo, Texas, on Friday. Mr. Labay expressed his supportfor Senator Ted Cruz by attaching plastic foam cups to a fence.

HOUSTON  Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas and the face of the angry right, has been criticized, lambasted and lampooned for putting the nation through a 16-day government shutdown and the prospect of a financial default.

Bloomberg Businessweek put him on its cover as a mad hatter who defines how crazy is the new normal. Representative Peter T. King, a Republican from New York, has said Republican leaders need to go after Mr. Cruz and accused him of bringing the country to the edge of ruin.

In Texas, it is a different story.

Drivers speeding down a busy highway about 70 miles outside Houston have been greeted with two blunt messages that Bruce Labay put up at his oil field services business. One declared that Mr. Labay was tired of softhearted Republicans, though he used a more colorful adjective. The other read, We Need More Republicans Like Ted Cruz.

Mr. Labay, 55, made his signs by sticking 1,200 plastic foam cups, one by one, into the loops of his chain-link fence, a 90-minute project that filled much of the fencing around BL Oilfield Services in the town of El Campo.

I was proud of him, Mr. Labay said of the states junior senator. I was proud he was a Texan. I wish they would have held firm, and wed still be shut down. .......

..He's in the middle of the maelstrom and although he was, I'm sure, keenly aware of what he was walking into, he's still human and surely appreciates encouragement and recognition from those who like what he's doing......

..especially in face of those horrible threats he is now receiving.

We are blessed to have him on our side....fighting for our cause and the Republic.

Cruz wasn’t defeated. He offered a better route and his Senate colleagues were fine with the status quo in Washington. The people lost, and Cruz gained a national following. Depending on his desired path in the future, the only negative for Cruz in this is moving squarely into the liberal media buzzsaw.

If a highly principled, very articulate, very smart and fearless Hispanic man can’t weather the media nuclear attack, we may learn through this that no one can.

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posted on 10/19/2013 6:19:27 AM PDT
by ilgipper
(Obama is proving that very bad ideas can be wrapped up in pretty words)

Texas is not America, said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican political consultant in Austin and the former spokesman for Mr. Cruzs Republican predecessor in the Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison. Its in America, but its not America."

Fair enough. Subtraction. Now more than ever, it's the right thing to do. Time for Texas to kick some states out of the Union.

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posted on 10/19/2013 6:22:10 AM PDT
by PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)

Who gives a crap what Peter King and the rest of the establishment thinks. We are here....we will be heard...if you hit us we will hit back. Peter King has earned himself a primary opponent....I hope. Being from New York I doubt we can replace him but we can damn sure make his sorry ass miserable!!!

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posted on 10/19/2013 6:29:35 AM PDT
by ontap
(but was just wondering how the Martinez family feels about illegal aliens.....just asking!!!)

DEE FEET? Hardly. . . . . He was one of the few with the guts to tell the MF truth. Truth! you know that elusive term ZERO never uses. Once the shit hits the fan Ted will be a hero. . . OK Maybe not a hero to the LSM, but to some voters that didn't understand.

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posted on 10/19/2013 6:35:54 AM PDT
by DeaconRed
(I won't back down. You can stand me up at the gates of Hell and I won't back down. My Stance to BO)

Let me get this straight, Cruz answered his campaign promise to dismantle the universally, and bipartisan disgust in Obamacare, actually did what he said he promised in his position as Senator.. OUTRAGEOUS..

Cruz is one of the very few in our government who is for the people, for America and intelligent enough to see what is going on in corrupt Washington. Unless and until more true Americans’ stand with him the nation will continue down the road to disaster. And that disaster is not far away.

Well, I “reckon” you should, lol! As the commercial goes, “it’s like a whole other country”. Btw, if you should happen to be from one of those Commie blue states, check any Marxists attitudes you may posses at the border please :). God Bless Texas!

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posted on 10/19/2013 7:07:36 AM PDT
by snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)

I love Texas. It’s the way Arizona used to be before we were invaded from the south and the west. Californians looking for work because they chased all the business away was the worst thing that ever happened to us. Beware Texas, the same may happen to you, I hope you are strong enough to overcome the liberal hoards.

I moved to Texas in July. I am very proud to say that I have Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert representing me in Washington DC, instead of the Rats I had before in NC, David Price and Kay Hagan..... We need many more Teds and Louies IMO.....

And another lie that the Socialists media and politicians are allowed to go unchallenged trumpeting is that the Republicans caused the shutdown. No it was Obama and Reid that caused the shutdown. the House funded everything that required funding as was their authority under the Constitution. Reid and Obama refused to accept it. Each time I hear someone say that the Republicans caused the shutdown, I correct them, though I doubt if it does any good.

One of the things I noticed that when I saw Cruz on TV he was constantly challenged with attacks from all sides. Personal attacks. He never bought into that, and simply went back to pointing out the damage that Obamacare is already causing to the economy.

Yes, and when he was asked about the personal attacks or so and so said this about you, etc., he basically said he wasn’t going to go there and didn’t.

King, McLame, Pelousy, Reid, Obummer, et al don’t get a) that a person can respectfully disagree and not result to name-calling and bad mouthing, and b) what it means to support and stand up for your constituents (well, maybe Pelousy does since she’s from San Fran and Obummer did promise to “transform America”, though I supect not all/most of those that voted for him (e.g., Low info voters) knew exactly what that meant - they should have listened to us - we had his number from the get-go).

And another lie that the Socialists media and politicians are allowed to go unchallenged trumpeting is that the Republicans caused the shutdown. No it was Obama and Reid that caused the shutdown. the House funded everything that required funding as was their authority under the Constitution. Reid and Obama refused to accept it. Each time I hear someone say that the Republicans caused the shutdown, I correct them, though I doubt if it does any good.

Agree

Don’t know if you saw Hannity last night. He had a collection of both
sides , including David Webb and Tamara Holder.

The Dems do one thing well. Ignore questions, and shift the blame.

Hannity does a very poor job of keeping them on topic, and pinning them to specifics.

The only thing worse than one of his groups is “ rat on my head “ Frank
Lunz focus group......

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